IPPC CPM

IGTC Secretariat Katy Lee is back from Rome, Italy where she attended the International Plant Protection Convention’s 14^th Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM), a meeting of the 183 contracting parties to the IPPC. At the CPM Katy monitored agenda topics relevant to the IGTC policy priorities, including:

• The contribution of the global trade of commodities to global food security and economic development
• The business plan for the ePhyto Solution post 2019
• International Year of Plant Health 2020 (IYPH 2020)
• Next generation sequencing technologies as a diagnostic tool for phytosanitary purposes
• Adding, deleting or modifying IPPC documents on the following subjects of interest to IGTC members:
• Terms for consideration by the Technical Panel on the Glossary (TPG);
• Diagnostic protocols for consideration by the Technical Panel on Diagnostic Protocols (TPDP);
• Phytosanitary treatments for consideration by the Technical Panel on Phytosanitary Treatments (TPPT)

A trip report for this travel will be available in the coming days.